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* Build out and integrated a new team from scratch that is efficient and delivers results quickly.
* Sphere of influence spanning across 5 teams and 35-50 engineers.
* Provide technical leadership, guiding teams towards better cloud infrastructure choices and solutions.
* Optimize and right-size cloud spend across the organization, saving $600k+ per year.
* Create self-service platforms that allow development teams to build with high-velocity and low toil.
* Architect cloud identity and permissions model across all teams, including fine-grained IAM roles.
* Work with engineering leadership to define and achieve plans for data center to cloud migration goals.
* Migrate 100s of TB of storage from on-prem data centers to AWS-based cloud storage services.
* Work across many teams to gather requirements and implement organization-wide security and access controls.
* Play a key role in implementing the Kubernetes EKS cloud migration strategy and cluster upgrade efforts.
* Redsign and rebuild cloud network from scratch, spanning across hundreds of VPCs and multiple regions.

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* Work with business leaders to design and deliver a broad range of technical projects within time
estimates and under budget, saving large amounts of money for the business.
* Extensive experience with infrastructure design, architecture and management in HIPAA-regulated environments.
* Security, compliance and risk management in HIPAA-regulated environments.
* Plan cloud SIEM architecture for the company, including vendor comparisons/recommendations, architecture and design documents, and aligning teams on goals.
* Drive design and rollout of 'Backup-as-a-Service' platform product and promote its benefits to other engineering teams.
* Help migrate over 90 cloud accounts to a new AWS organization and implement org management best practices.
* Mentor teammates at all levels of experience as the team size has grown from 3 to 8 over a period of 2 years.
* Spearhead the RFC process for adopting and implementing architectures and designs across the engineering org.

* Champion incident response and management program, including training and roll out to teams.
* Drive the adoption of observability tools by promoting the benefits across teams and org.
* Develop a documentation-driven culture within the team and use it to inform and drive decisions.
* Develop and promote tools and culture to support self-service across the organization.
* Scale the internal infrastructure and platform from under 10 AWS accounts to over 70.
* Identify manual and tedious processes and remove them with tools and automation.
* Work with the security team to ensure compliance standards and to effectively mitigate risk.
* Automate upgrade and migration of 1000+ Terraform resources from v0.11 to v0.12.

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QED Investors

General Atlantic

Iconiq Capital

Lead Edge Capital

CPP Investments

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* Write Python and Bash tools to automate otherwise manual tasks in AWS and across the infra.
* Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices using Terraform and Terragrunt.
* Migrate 20+ manually deployed services to automated CI releases using ECS, Git and Terraform.
* Migrate 10+ SQL databases from manually managed, legacy environments to automated ones.
* Write automation for managing all infrastructure, including AWS, PagerDuty and DataDog configs.
* Migrate manually managed Windows infrastructure running on Rackspace to AWS and containers.
* Build and maintain 10+ multinode ElasticSearch clusters across different teams and environments.

* Administer and maintain Kubernetes clusters in physical and cloud data centers.
* Implement Prometheus monitoring infrastructure for various new and legacy systems.
* Write Kubernetes manifest files for deploying new services and migrating old.
* Refactor legacy Nagios monitoring system using Ansible for easier use and maintenance.
* Update Ansible playbooks to add new features and fixes to legacy infrastructure.
* Write scripts and other tools to perform a variety of infrastructure automation tasks.

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Method Capital

OCA Ventures

Approach Capital

KCRise Fund

BW Capital Partners

KGC CAPITAL

DRW Trading Group

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* Implement continuous deployment system for automatic deployments that is still in use today.
* Build continuous integration system for deploying to production 10+ times per day.
* Write shell scripts to help automate manual tasks and improve various workflows.
* Create internal tooling for managing development environments using Docker.
* Design and implement scalable and fault tolerant cloud based environments.
* Experience with automation and configuration management tools for managing systems.
* Deploy and manage modern cloud based, distributed monitoring and logging tools.
* Distributed systems engineering and administration across multiple cloud infrastructures.
* Architect and migrate previously on-premises data center to AWS based infrastructure.
* Instrument infrastructure to use container technologies for scalability and performance.

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•	Work with System Engineers to build a multi-site HA Exchange 2010 environment.
•	Produce and maintain detailed documentation for all work personally responsible for.
•	Leverage PowerShell to administer and automate repetitive administrative tasks.
•	Spearhead efforts to create fully functional test environment to mimic production.
•	Closely involved with documentation, maintenance and management of data centers.
•	Deploy network and system monitoring tools, reducing production site issues.
•	Work with business leaders on design, development and implementation of backup solution.

•	Involvement in the implementation and maintenance of BackupExec backup solution.
•	Installation of open source network monitoring solution, reducing financial impact.
•	Troubleshooting of Exchange mail flow problems for users company wide.
•	Manage Windows 2008 file and print server for access by Windows and Mac systems.
•	Implement network security using Fortigate Firewall and centrally managed Anti-Virus.
•	Configure network to follow previously failing PCI compliance guidelines with minimal time.
•	Built multiple database driven websites with back-end user interfaces using Dreamweaver.

•	Contributed to the creation and adoption of in house custom ticket tracking software. 
•	Implemented billing and inventory method, strengthening company organization.
•	Performed advanced data image processing and recovery techniques to preserve information.
•	Deployed and documented various server installations and network infrastructure designs.
•	Developed solid understanding of small and medium business support, increasing up times.
•	Obtained extensive knowledge of desktop, laptop and network troubleshooting techniques.